Just a Couple of Questions

I have setup FC4 server running ISPconfig and i have follow the tuts probably about 4 to 5 times now as i built and rebuilt the server from scratch over and over again many wouldnt i considered a good learning curve and it was fun...

Anyway to my question....

I noticed that all is well on internal side of my network and all works nice...
But when i goto work and try to access the server no go blank page server timed out type messages. Server is behind a NAT(home variety router) do i have to make sure that all these port are forwarded to the server ???

I tried this and it doesnt seem to give me access from outside it doesnt seem to work there is also a virtual server ip do i need to port forward all ports in the list above for the virtual ip ???

I also get a message when i reboot the server about the primary internal ip address not having a virtualhost

something like this

[warn] NameVirtualHost 192.168.*.*:80 does not have a virtualhost

i did read about this and you guys having very good tutorials and stuff to read on this site and it has to do with apache or php filters and this was being addressed in the next version of ISPconfig as i sore in the dev forum.

but i was wondering if this had something to do with not being able to access the server from the outside.

Just a brief on the setup....
server is FC4 and built and configured exactly the way the Falko HOW-TO which is great.
domain name forwarded to server ip and the dns servers are addressing the connection ip.

I also did read that for SSL site you need a ip per site so as admin i created a client then a web for this client and activated the SSL and SSI but from my limited knowledge in order to have multible webs on the 1 ip do i have to deactive SSL and SSI for the clients web ???

Im sorry but this has turned from one question to a few but while i got you i might as well ask....

Just one other question i noticed with ProFtp when i try and access it using smartftp on another computer within the network some files are uploaded and some arnt uploaded and the ones that dont make smartftp hang and i need to restart smartftp and i have tried this with pasv auto and non pasv 10101 and all the combos it still hangs on certain files and not others.

One thing i did notice is on this computer within my network as soon as i turn the firewall off on the computer all the files transfer but there is a lag during each file and i think there is a error message say something like this...

550 file.ext: No such file or directory

Anyway i have said my piece this as much as i could collect in one go....

I would very much apreciate anyones contribution to my questions here
Other then that you know what all the stuff on the site and the forums are A1 or A+ which ever you prefer...

I have setup FC4 server running ISPconfig and i have follow the tuts probably about 4 to 5 times now as i built and rebuilt the server from scratch over and over again many wouldnt i considered a good learning curve and it was fun...

Anyway to my question....

I noticed that all is well on internal side of my network and all works nice...
But when i goto work and try to access the server no go blank page server timed out type messages. Server is behind a NAT(home variety router) do i have to make sure that all these port are forwarded to the server ???

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No. Only the ports where you want to access the server from the outside. Eg.g if you want to access the webserver, port 80 must be forwarded. For the ISPConfig interface, port 81. If you want to access all services from outside, forward all ports listed below except port 10000.

I tried this and it doesnt seem to give me access from outside it doesnt seem to work there is also a virtual server ip do i need to port forward all ports in the list above for the virtual ip ???

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No, just use your main server IP.

I also get a message when i reboot the server about the primary internal ip address not having a virtualhost

something like this

[warn] NameVirtualHost 192.168.*.*:80 does not have a virtualhost

i did read about this and you guys having very good tutorials and stuff to read on this site and it has to do with apache or php filters and this was being addressed in the next version of ISPconfig as i sore in the dev forum.

but i was wondering if this had something to do with not being able to access the server from the outside.

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Have you created the website in ISPConfig on this IP or on the second (virtual) IP?

I also did read that for SSL site you need a ip per site so as admin i created a client then a web for this client and activated the SSL and SSI but from my limited knowledge in order to have multible webs on the 1 ip do i have to deactive SSL and SSI for the clients web ???

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You can activate SSL only on one website per IP, you will get an error from ISPConfig i you try to activate it on another website.

Just one other question i noticed with ProFtp when i try and access it using smartftp on another computer within the network some files are uploaded and some arnt uploaded and the ones that dont make smartftp hang and i need to restart smartftp and i have tried this with pasv auto and non pasv 10101 and all the combos it still hangs on certain files and not others.

One thing i did notice is on this computer within my network as soon as i turn the firewall off on the computer all the files transfer but there is a lag during each file and i think there is a error message say something like this...

550 file.ext: No such file or directory

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Did you get any errors in your syslog or xferlog?

Anyway i have said my piece this as much as i could collect in one go....

I would very much apreciate anyones contribution to my questions here
Other then that you know what all the stuff on the site and the forums are A1 or A+ which ever you prefer...

I cant seem to find any syslog that has details of any errors at all... unless you can tell me the location of the syslog offcourse.

I dont really understand why its doing what it does its really weird some files it likes and otheres it doesnt also noticed that sometime it does like uploading a certian file structure either. This sounds to me like a permissions issue but everything is pritty much and its should be according to a howto for FD4

I was just wondering also if i set the eth0 ip address as dynamic would this cause a issue and im not talking when the ip address changes and i cant access the server at all only when the dns has resolved the right ip address for the domain ???

Sooner or later i will be getting a static ip address and i wont have to continuesly goto the dns server and update the ip well maybe one more time for the static ip i get but i was wondering if this could cause any issues with the ISPconfig ???

Im sorry this is a last moment edit of this post i just wanted to add this

I cant seem to find any syslog that has details of any errors at all... unless you can tell me the location of the syslog offcourse.

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Might be /var/log/syslog or /var/log/messages.

brainz said:

I dont really understand why its doing what it does its really weird some files it likes and otheres it doesnt also noticed that sometime it does like uploading a certian file structure either. This sounds to me like a permissions issue but everything is pritty much and its should be according to a howto for FD4

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Seems to be a problem with the permissions/ownerships of the directories to which you try to upload.

brainz said:

I was just wondering also if i set the eth0 ip address as dynamic would this cause a issue and im not talking when the ip address changes and i cant access the server at all only when the dns has resolved the right ip address for the domain ???